I don't think that's fair. HAProxy is good and reliable. It's just old for the use cases we need today. Even the article has this opinion: > While HAProxy has

I don't think that's fair. HAProxy is good and reliable. It's just old for the use cases we need today. Even the article has this opinion: > While HAProxy has served us well and reliably for many years, it also has some operational sharp edges Saying it sounds awful is like saying Vanilla JS sounds awful because it doesn't scale to the demanding webapp use cases of today. And, as you mentioned, it's really compounded by the fact that they're using an outdated version of HAProxy, but that doesn't make it awful software.